Ubisoft Reveals Details of Upcoming For Honor Beta
Ubisoft has revealed details of the closed beta test for For Honor, running from January 26 to January 29, 2017.
The beta will be available across all platforms - PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One - and offer "new multiplayer content, new maps and new playable Heroes".
Players will be able to choose from nine of the 12 different Heroes from the three factions of Knights, Samurai, and Vikings, with each offering a different play-style, armour, skills, weapons, and progression. Three of the five "fast-paced and intense multiplayer modes" are available - Dominion 4v4, Brawl 2v2, and Duel 1v1 - across three all new maps.
For the first time, players will also be able to sample Faction War, a "global, persistent and cross-platform event that brings to life the ongoing war between For Honor’s three factions, the Knights, the Vikings and the Samurai".
The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ Is a Switch Launch Title
Publisher Nicalis has announced that The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ will be a launch day title for Nintendo Switch, priced at $39.99 USD.
The horrible, brilliant twin-stick dungeon crawler was confirmed for March 3 on the Binding of Isaac blog - it will be available as a boxed and digital release in the US, with a digital release expected worldwide (Nicalis has also teased a European physical release).
Nicalis' Tyrone Rodriguez also teased something mysterious for those going for a boxed version: "You might want to consider pre-ordering as the first few thousand copies may come backed in with something special"
Final Nioh Demo Will Let You Unlock Special Items at Launch
The final Nioh free trial will take place this weekend, January 21 to January 22, and offers some loot for those who go on to purchase the full version.
This is the last chance to try out the dungeon crawler before its release on February 9 exclusively for PS4, and will be the build playable at PlayStation Experience at the tail end of last year.
Players who complete the trial’s main mission unlock the Ogress Headgear, while finishing the Twilight Mission grants the Mark of the Conqueror and Mark of the Strong DLC packs (which appear to include multiple items). Just don’t delete your save data between now and then as you’ll need it to receive the items at launch.
You can preload the final trial ahead of this weekend over on the PlayStation store.
Let’s Work Out What All the 1-2 Switch Minigames Are
Last week, we were invited to play six of the minigames included in upcoming Nintendo Switch collection/tech showcase, 1-2 Switch. Aside from "who thought of the Milk one, and are they alright?", the biggest question we came away asking was, "how many more of these are there?"
As it turns out, we've already been shown quite a few - for a split-second or two at least. During a Nintendo Treehouse stream, it was revealed that the cutesy, colour-coded lifestyle shots from the 1-2 Switch trailer (below) were taken from the minigames' tutorials, which means we can reasonably assume that every shot we saw is a different game.
Patrick Stewart Plays Poop in The Emoji Movie
Shakespearean kings. Neo-Nazi kingpins. Jean-Luc Picard. These are the roles of the actor, Patrick Stewart. His continuing mission, to explore strange new psyches, to seek out new lives and new experiences. To boldly go where no one has gone before.
Which might go some way towards explaining why he's now the "distinguished" voice of the poop emoji.
So excited to announce the distinguished @SirPatStew as Poop in the #EmojiMovie – in theaters August 4th! #SonyAnimationDay pic.twitter.com/JTeEhP08qI
4 Reasons Halo Wars 2 Has Something for Everyone
Whether you’re a fan of Halo, a real-time strategy aficionado, or both, Halo Wars 2 is shaping up to be something pretty unique that you’re going to want to keep an eye on. If you spent time with the original Halo Wars at any point in the past eight years, you’ll find a lot of familiarity in this next chapter.
But Halo Wars 2 is doing some surprising things that might make this the real-time strategy game for you:
If you’ve been following the Halo saga closely then you already know Halo Wars 2 will expand the universe by exploring familiar characters and locations, and introducing brand new ones. If you’re not following the Haloverse and just looking for some good strategy gameplay, then you’re in good hands.
Tina Fey’s New 30 Rock-Type Comedy Series
There are more than a few parallels between NBC's new sitcom Great News and 30 Rock. They're both about hard-working women in the television industry (news for the newer show, sketch comedy for the older one), they both hail from comedy queen Tina Fey and fellow executive producer Robert Carlock, and, most importantly, they're both funny.
But Great News, which was created by 30 Rock and The Mindy Project writer Tracey Wigfield, has one key difference. "It's a funny show with a lot of fast-paced jokes per page but the show is very different. At its core it's a show about a mother and a daughter," Wigfield said on a Television Critics Association 2017 winter press tour. "There were a couple times -- Tina was very much on it -- about let’s make sure Katie isn’t, like, eating tuna out of a can or tucking her shirt into her underwear, that kind of thing, making sure that Katie is a very different character
Facebook, Oculus Founders Testify in Ongoing ZeniMax Trial
Chief executive of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg and Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey both took the stand recently as part of the ongoing trial led by Bethesda parent company ZeniMax.
As reported by The New York Times, Zuckerberg denied accusations that Oculus stole technology from ZeniMax, and claimed "Oculus products are built on Oculus technology."
“The idea that Oculus products are based on someone else’s technology is just wrong,” said Zuckerberg.
When questioned by ZeniMax's lawyers about his response to the lawsuit, Zuckerberg said that such occurrences were common around "big deals."
Overwatch Teases ‘Year of the Rooster’ Event
Overwatch has teased something called 'Year of the Rooster', which looks to be a Chinese New Year event.
The tease depicts Mei, a character of Chinese origin, in a variation of traditional Chinese clothing. As spotted by NeoGaf, Overwatch's Korean Twitter account also appears to have revealed a new skin for D.Va.
Why Powerless Added its Bruce Wayne Connection
When the new DC Comics comedy TV series Powerless debuts on February 2nd, it’ll look very different from the version that screened at San Diego Comic-Con last summer.
Original creator Ben Queen departed the series after the pilot was filmed, and ultimately, the decision was made by new showrunners Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker to completely overhaul the series – discarding the original insurance company setting and now placing the characters as employees at Wayne Security.
Explained Schumacker at the Television Critics Association press tour today, “15 weeks into this we thought that the insurance company angle wasn’t really generating the storylines we hoped,” saying they sat down and spoke to DC about wanting to change the series. They felt the new security company setting still let them “tell classic workplace stories but in a way that activates the DC universe more.”